These little thugs are like toads clinging to shoes.
They don't hurt anyone, but they are disgusting.
In the past, if Xu Zhengyang got entangled with such scum, he really wouldn't have had a good way to deal with these bastards.
Even if he called the police and got them arrested, they would be released in at most fifteen days without causing any serious consequences.
Soon after, he would be subjected to even more severe retaliation from this group of thugs!
Recently, Xu Zhengyang had been busy with construction at the lumber factory, and he had too many secrets.
If he got stuck with these sticky pests, his secrets would eventually be exposed.
For this reason, Xu Zhengyang decided to take decisive action and eliminate them all! After all, in this vast area of the northern suburbs, only a few main intersections had surveillance cameras.
Even if these thugs went missing, it would take some time before anyone could trace it back to him!
In the end, Xu Zhengyang used Detection to check the scene again, confirming that no evidence was left behind, and then said, "I hope it's just the lower-level guys speculating wildly, trying to curry favor.
That way, after these idiots go missing, they can at least stay quiet for a while."
With that, Xu Zhengyang returned to his hideout.
*The next day.
Xu Zhengyang got up early as usual, made himself a honey-glazed beef pie, and then headed to the gym to work out and burn calories.
I have to say, working out can be addictive.
At first, Xu Zhengyang went to the gym just to complete a task and gain a bit of strength attribute.
But after a few days of persistence, he now feels something is missing if he doesn't spend some time exercising in the gym every day; he feels uncomfortable all over.
After completing today's tasks and taking a shower, he received a call from Luo Xinfeng, informing him that the cold storage equipment he ordered yesterday had arrived.
Arriving outside the lumber factory, Xu Zhengyang used Detection on the items piled on the ground.
After verifying the goods and confirming everything was correct, Xu Zhengyang immediately transferred the payment to Luo Xinfeng, saying, "Thank you, Boss Luo."
...
A moment later, after Luo Xinfeng and his team left, Xu Zhengyang used his Dimensional Space Pocket to transport the parts into his hideout.
The installation of the cold storage was not difficult.
With two Engineering Robots from future technology at his disposal, doing this work was a piece of cake!
Generally speaking, the storage temperature for fruits and vegetables is between 0℃ and 13℃; for frozen meat, it is between -18℃ and -25℃; and for special medical biological products like vaccines, bone marrow, and plasma, the storage temperature is between -20℃ and -80℃.
When Xu Zhengyang instructed the Engineering Robots to build the cold storage compartments yesterday, he had already set aside these three zones.
As a result, in just three hours, the system notification appeared before Xu Zhengyang:
[Main Quest: Warehouse Upgrade (Completed)]
[Reward: [Building Effect: Suppression]]
...
[Building Effect: Suppression]
[Effect: When your cold storage is operating normally, the activity of all microorganisms inside the cold storage is reduced by 60%]
[Evaluation: Reject decay!]
Seeing this building effect, Xu Zhengyang was overjoyed.
The reason food molds and spoils is fundamentally due to the mischief of microorganisms! Although the cold storage has equipment to control the levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide to suppress microbial activity, the resilience of various microorganisms is incredibly strong.
Even in extremely harsh environments, it is impossible to completely stop their growth and reproduction.
But now it was different.
Xu Zhengyang had both the cold storage and the building effect of Suppression.
With this double approach, the shelf life of the various supplies stored in Xu Zhengyang's cold storage could be extended several times! "First, I'll go buy some things and fill the cold storage!"
Xu Zhengyang said, opening his task list to check his latest main quest:
[Main Quest: Computing Power Center (In Progress)]
[Your hideout has taken shape.
However, the maintenance work related to the hideout has also become increasingly burdensome.
You need to provide sufficient computing power in your hideout so that the household butler can operate normally.]
[Task Objective: Build a computing power center in the hideout (area not less than 25 square meters);
Configure 100,000 TFLOPS of computing power in the computing power center.]
[Task Reward: JY-1 Household Butler (Weak AI Version)]
"Computing power? 100,000 TFLOPS?" Xu Zhengyang was taken aback when he saw the task objective.
Although AI is very popular now, Xu Zhengyang only had a superficial understanding of the industry; he knew that computing power was closely related to graphics cards.
"What is this 100,000 TFLOPS unit?" Xu Zhengyang said, quickly taking out his phone to search online.
...
Five minutes later.
Xu Zhengyang couldn't help but frown.
Currently, the most convenient personal computing power solution is graphics cards, and the highest computing power among graphics cards is the 4090, which has 100 TFLOPS of computing power.
Doing the math, Xu Zhengyang would need to buy a thousand 4090s to meet the task requirements! Although prices have risen sharply recently, the price of graphics cards hasn't changed much; a 4090 still costs just over ten thousand.
Xu Zhengyang didn't lack the over ten million yuan needed.
However, the 4090s available domestically are all the castrated versions post-sanctions, the 4090D. This model of graphics card doesn't have much impact on gaming.
But if there are requirements for computing power, it would be a severe blow to the core.
"It seems that it's not feasible in the country."
Xu Zhengyang said.
He first went to the kitchen to make a few honey-glazed beef pies and put them into the Dimensional Space Pocket, then took his passport and hailed a taxi to the airport.
On the way, Xu Zhengyang booked the fastest flight to Siam.
*Seven hours later.
Xu Zhengyang set foot on this hot and humid land for the second time.
Although some places in northern China were already covered in heavy snow, the temperature in Siam was still over thirty degrees.
Returning to Siam for the second time, Xu Zhengyang took a taxi straight to Chinatown.
...
Yan's Gold Shop, VIP Room.
Before Xu Zhengyang had finished his cup of tea, Yan Xiaowei rushed in energetically.
As soon as he entered, Yan Xiaowei approached Xu Zhengyang with a beaming smile and shook his hand, saying, "Mr. Xu, why didn't you give me a heads-up before coming to Siam?
I could have hosted a banquet for you at Ding Tai Lou!"
"That's not necessary."
Xu Zhengyang waved his hand and said, "My boss wants some items, but those things can't be obtained domestically, and my boss is pressing me for them.
So I had to come and trouble Young Mr. Yan again."
"I wonder what I can assist you with?"
Yan Xiaowei said, then immediately added with a wry smile, "But Mr. Xu, your boss is so powerful.
If even he can't get something, I fear I won't be able to access it either..."
"Graphics cards."
Xu Zhengyang got straight to the point, saying, "The kind of 4090, the uncastrated version, I need about twelve hundred of them.
I can't buy that many in the country, so I can only come here to bother Young Mr. Yan."
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